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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
Woops, meant to post this in hardware, thanks for the move Crawdaddy.
Engadget has more speculation:
Best Buy quitting the 80GB PS3? - Engadget
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
Interesting that someone over there mentioned (w/ link) that Sony is looking for engineers to work on emulation for the PS2 (and other PS formats). Maybe my PS3/40GB will eventually have some backward compatibility w/ PS2 games afterall -- not that it matters much to me since I don't have any PS2 games.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
BTW, Sam, why didn't you mention PS3 in the thread title?
Unfortunately for me, even if SonyStyle has a 30-day price guarantee, I'll probably just miss the cutoff.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
I plan to buy a 40gig tomorrow from BB with a 20% off coupon. Either way, I'll get the price difference being that it will drop within the next month of me buying it if it ends up less then with my coupon.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
I got the Sharp player for $300 ... 6 weeks ago.
If it's not worth waiting until the last minute to do, then it's not worth doing.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
Not according to the coupon. It only states the Pioneer Elite and the XBox360 as being excluded. The PS3 is listed no where on the coupon and it does say "all" Blu-ray players. There's no grounds printed in black and white saying I can't get the PS3 at 20% off. Yeah, I'll raise hell if I need to.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
I tried and tried, went all the way to the top BB guy this morning, no dice. Oh well, I still bought one. If the price cut happens I'll just bring in my receipt and get the difference. I picked up Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for my first game to play.
After talking with my bro at BB he said he's read the rumors on the price drop but nothing offical from BB. The only thing he showed me is that the free movies / games that come with the PS3's are getting pulled out.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
It was worth a shot but videogame console margins are pretty low (probably $15-$30) so ain't no way they were going to lose $80 on a 40GB PS3.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
its official that they dropped the eighty but no word on the price drop yet. Monday should be interesting!
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
Sony, right now, is having a wonderful time. It used the Trojan Horse strategy to put millions of Blu-ray players into homes by riding on the wave of their new gaming system. Now it is reversed. The PS3 is the least expensive full profile Blu-ray player on the market and probably will be for the next 6 to 12 months. Their getting their gaming machine into peoples homes because it is the best bang-for-your-buck Blu-ray player. It's two for one for Sony.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
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I tried and tried, went all the way to the top BB guy this morning, no dice. Oh well, I still bought one. If the price cut happens I'll just bring in my receipt and get the difference. I picked up Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for my first game to play.
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Is Uncharted: Drake's Fortune really that much fun (and is it 1080i/p)? I think Crawdaddy(?) or some other mod mentioned it before as the only game he plays on his PS3. Maybe I'll actually give it a try at some point. I only bought the PotC 3 game for my son as sort of a token (1080i/p) game for our PS3 -- the family still mainly plays the old XBox in general though I rarely touch it myself.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
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I know the 40 gig PS3 doesn't have the PS2 hardware chip like the 60 gig did, but what about software emulation for PS2 games?
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The original PS3s essentially had PS2s built into them. They had both the PS2's processor and graphics chip for backwards compatibility. The current BC models dropped the processor and made up for it with software emulation, but they still have the graphics chip. The 40gig has neither pieces of hardware.
It's suggested that Sony could emulate both for full software compatibility, but it would very difficult. Anything is possible though, and it is known that Sony is currently hiring "Compatibility Engineers" for the PS3--whatever that means.
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I actually wanted to put 'The Best' BluRay Deck in the title but figured that would stir things up more than my amusement was worth =)
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
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Is Uncharted: Drake's Fortune really that much fun (and is it 1080i/p)? I think Crawdaddy(?) or some other mod mentioned it before as the only game he plays on his PS3.
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I have been playing 'Uncharted: Drake's Fortune', these last few days and it really is a lot of fun. Another game you might want to check out, which is really fun for the whole family, is 'Rachet & Clank: Tools Of Destruction'.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
Well, it's the 28th. My local BB did not drop the price.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
Sony will do anything to get the gaming machine in homes whether people want it or not. Trojan Horse in reverse, Sony got Blu-ray into homes off the momentum of a new gaming machine, now it's the most Robust Blu-ray player and will be for the next 12 months. It's not like Sony could not deliver a Blu-ray player like the PS3 striped of all gaming expense like the hard drive and even maybe make a profit. Blu-ray S/A players might be artificially high to allow PS3 saturation in homes.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
I bought my Samsung 1400 for $299 and it's fantastic.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
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Well, it's the 28th. My local BB did not drop the price.
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The rumour did not come from a credible source & no "reliable" gaming rumour sites had anything to back it up either. Cheap Ass Gamer even posted scans of BB/CC adverts showing no price drop for this week & next week too.
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Re: Rumor: BluRay deck to be $299 on Jan 28th
If it's not credible I sure wish people wouldn't post it.
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